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Ben Affleck’s The Batman will go down in history as one of the great films that never happened.
Like Tim Burton’s Superman Lives, George Miller’s Justice League: Mortal and Darren Aronofsky’s Batman: Year One before it— Affleck’s The Batman is one of Warner Bros shelved DC projects fans would love to have seen make the light of day.
After Josstice League failed to set the box office alight and internal interference with his movie, Affleck hung up his cape and cowl. One of the casualties of the movie being shelved was True Blood star Joe Manganeillo, who was introduced as Deathstroke at the end of Josstice League.
The actor recently spoke with Yahoo! and shared some details about the film, and how it drawed comparisons to David Fincher thriller The Game, that would have saw Deathstroke tear apart Bruce Wayne’s life piece by piece.
Manganeillo also said that Snyder’s original post-credit scene in Justice League was to introduce Deathstroke to set up Affleck’s The Batman, but when Joss Whedon came aboard his scene was reworked to set up Josstice League 2.
Snyder’s original plan was to have Darkseid as the main villain in the sequel and not the Injustice League.
Manganeillo was also set to star in his own solo Deathstroke film, with The Raid’s Gareth Evans once onboard to direct at one point. Touched on how he had worked on a good few treatments for the film. But ultimately shelved with Warner Bros reshuffle.
Some good has came out of it however, as Zack Snyder has been given the opportunity to finish his original vision and he called Manganeillo up to shoot some additional photography.
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— JOE MANGANIELLO (@JoeManganiello) November 19, 2020
After working on a few treatments for Deathstroke, Manganeillo had ideas and he shared them with Zack, who was really supportive.
Ultimately, Manganeillo hopes this makes fans interest in the character and it revives his chances of a Deathstroke standalone.
Joe, fans would love to see it. Trust me on that. We hope Zack Snyder’s Justice League is the catalyst that starts reverting to the original ideas that was in store for us when the DCEU began.
— Ben Affleck (@BenAffleck) August 29, 2016
SOURCE | Yahoo!
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